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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4808)9/27/2006 11:57:18 AM
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"The RF for oil suggests that 89 metric tons of ancient plant matter were required to create 1 U.S. Gallon [3.8 L] of gasoline."

Burning Buried Sunshine
Posted by Dave Cohen on Wednesday September 27, 2006 at 9:46 AM EST



I thought it was time to step far enough away from the myopia induced by current oil prices and, in so doing, provide sufficient space to review the the sustainability of the way we live. The title is taken from Jeffrey Dukes' 2003 paper Burning Buried Sunshine: Human Consumption of Ancient Solar Energy (pdf). Before moving on to Dukes' results, here is a summary of the findings of Mathis Wackernagel, et. al. Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy (pdf).

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